"The dialogue is constantly confronting, articulate and stimulating, the intellectual exchanges piercing at times. Cronenberg's direction is at one with the writer's diamond-hard rigor..."
Hollywood Reporter "Mr. Fassbender is entirely persuasive...and Mr. Mortensen is intriguingly nuanced."
Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he flick is a view of our perpetually nascent relationship to medicine, and particularly the study of consiousness....Michael Fassbender is reliably great..."
Box Office "[I]t is talk -- smart, satisfying and sometimes even thrilling -- that is at the heart of A DANGEROUS METHOD....The confident directing style of David is essential in making this kind of intellectually stimulating cinema look easy."
Los Angeles Times "[A] subtle and intellectually thrilling true story..."
New York Times "[T]he exchanges between Fassbenders Jung and Mortensens Freud are the movies greatest pleasures."
Movieline "Mortensen, cast against type, particularly excels in the part."
A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A]bsorbing....Mortensen's performance is masterful in the way it shows Freud as a contained, analytical logician..."
Chicago Sun-Times "Fassbender emits a real erotic charge....The movie is a sturdily constructed triangle of desires." -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Leave it to Cronenberg to make the cerebral sizzle....The actors give it their all, especially Knightley..."
Rolling Stone 3 stars out of 4 -- "[I]ts very restraint makes A DANGEROUS METHOD perhaps Cronenberg's most transgressive movie yet, one in which ideas - rather than their fetishistic signifiers - possess more energy and verve than the most calculated shock effect."
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